I have the Chipsynth MD, which is a Sega Mega Drive (aka Genesis) based synth from Plogue and it's one of my favorite plug-in synths. It's pretty remarkable how much it nails the sounds from those games.<p>This video shows some insight into the development process: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VLxTHYGLKY0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VLxTHYGLKY0</a>
I bought it yesterday and I'm loving it. It's really good! AND NO SAMPLES!
I want to support developers like this who make something out of bounds with math instead of same old same old (samples, kontakt player, half done synth engine)
I appreciate the level of detail and effort he put into this emulation, and it ALMOST cures my lust for a THERAPSID mk3.
[see me answering my own question, at bottom of comment]<p>Is there scientific data supporting the verbal "it's really good" and "we did lots of research" claims?<p>Such as mdfourier testing and comparison with the original chips, or equivalent scientific scrutiny and comparison of the respective outputs?<p>The claims may well be true, but the greater the claim to merit, the more robust the supporting evidence should be.<p>[Answer follows: ]<p>Yes there does appear to be some, at approx 10m45sec of this Youtube video which is contained within the OP link.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pePq68HaI7M" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pePq68HaI7M</a>
I recently came across <a href="https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace">https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace</a><p>Super impressive tracker and emulator for many different 8 bit synth chips.<p>As a personal project I'm also embarking on a 4x AY-3-8910 chip synth all hooked up to as esp32-s3 for usb midi
This appears to be proprietary software. If you prefer Free Software, reSID also provides very good SID emulation:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReSID" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReSID</a>
The Plogue stuff is really high quality, though I wonder how it compares to their own chipsounds which already did the SID - I guess it's more all-encompassing of the different SID variants? Anyway, will give it a look later, this is neat! (Good to see they're explicitly calling out PWM, that's one of the key parts that made so much of the sound work so well on the machine)
Wow lots of hype about this out today - it showed up twice in my youtube feed.<p>It does sound pretty good. Not sure it will see much use outside of demoscene musicians though. I would love to be hearing more c64 music in my life though, glad Chipsynth exists.<p>Now what am I going to do with the half dozen SID chips I've been hoarding for the last 30 years?
I already have a SID emulation from Plogue from a couple of years ago.<p>An overview what is new would have been nice. I think at least the UI looks a bit smoother buy otherwise it is hard to tell if an upgrade is worth it.
my problem with this is that they aren't telling you what they're selling.<p>they say they're selling deep Sid chip emulation, but for what platform and for what formats? if I knew, I'd either be all over it, or wait until they supported what I was after (in my case, AU synth on macos), but without any information on what I'd be buying, it's a very hard sell.
There are unique qualites inherent to the SID itself that makes it impossible without a circuit-level simulation that also models signal leakage and crosstalk because that's why it sounds like it does. Gigs of research, they claim, what's that even mean?<p>No sir I'll stick with my MSSIAH.